Read the excerpt from "Digging." The cold smell of potato mould, the squelch and slap Of soggy peat, the curt cuts of an edge Through living roots awaken in my head. But I’ve no spade to follow men like them. Which words in the excerpt are linked by alliteration?

Alliteration is the repetition of the same initial consonant sound in nearby words. “Cold,” “curt,” and “cuts” all begin with the /k/ sound, so they are linked by alliteration. The other groups do not repeat the same initial sound throughout.

AI-written and checked against the verified answer.